Friedrich Schiller

a.k.a.Johann Christoph Friedrich Von Schiller

Author Code: GFSX

Born: Nov. 10, 1759 - Marbach, Germany

Died: May 9, 1805 - Weimar, Germany

Schiller was educated at a military academy, but took an early interest in poetry and drama. His play, The Robbers (1781) brought him to prominence, but at the same time brought him into conflict with the Duke of Wurttemburg and led to his fleeing to Mannheim where he became the house dramatist at the National Theatre. Here he wrote the plays Kabale und Liebe (1784) and Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien (1787). In 1794, he met Goethe in Weimar which marked a turning point in Schiller's career. With Goethe's help, he secured a professorship of history at the University of Jena, and from this point turned his talents to historical drama. Perhaps his greatest drama, Wallenstein, was produced in 1799 and was followed by Maria Stuart (1800), Die Jungfrau von Orleans (1801), Die Braut von Messina (1803) and his popular play Wilhelm Tell (1804). Schiller also wrote numerous historical and philosophical works including Revolt in the Netherlands (1788) and The Thirty Years War (1789-93). His output of poetry, ballads, essays and hymns was prodigious.

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GFSX013

Aesthetical Essays

Of the Cause of the Pleasure We Derive from Tragic Objects

Detached Reflections on Different Questions of Aesthetics

On Dignity

Elegiac Poetry

On Grace and Dignity

Idyl

The Moral Utility of Aesthetic Manners

On the Necessary Limitations in the Use of Beauty of Form

The Pathetic

Reflections on the Use of the Vulgar and Low Elements in Works of Art

Satirical Poetry

Sentimental Poetry

On Simple and Sentimental Poetry

The Stage as a Moral Institution

On the Sublime

On the Tragic Art

1795-1804

121

844k

GFSX018

The Bride of Messina [Play]

The Bride of Messina

On the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy

1803

83

649k

GFSX008

The Camp of Wallenstein [Play]

1799

43

380k

GFSX016

On the Connection Between the Animal & Spiritual Nature in Man

1780

34

390k

GFSX021

The Criminal

1788

14

319k

GFSX007

The Death of Wallenstein [Play]

1799

176

655k

GFSX004

Demetrius [Play]

1815

39

378k

GFSX006

Don Carlos [Play]

1787

219

742k

GFSX017

Fiesco - The Conspiracy of Genoa [Play]

1783

134

643k

GFSX019

The Ghost-Seer; or, The Apparitionist

1788

64

526k

GFSX003

Intrigue and Love [Play]

1784

97

571k

GFSX010

Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man

1794

54

466k

GFSX012

The Maid of Orleans [Play] [Illustrated]

1801

151

1622k

GFSX011

Mary Stuart [Play] [Illustrated]

1800

168

1719k

GFSX015

Philosophical Letters

1780

19

319k

GFSX009

The Piccolomini [Play]

1799

113

548k

GFSX014

The History of the Revolt in the Netherlands

1788

160

1048k

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The Robbers [Play]

1781

118

680k

GFSX020

The Sport of Destiny

1793

6

277k

GFSX022

Suppressed Poems

Actaeon

Bacchus in the Pillory

The Bad Monarchs

Dialogue

Epitaph

Epitaph on a Certain Physiognomist

To the Fates

Hymn to the Eternal

The Hypochondriacal Pluto

The Journalists and Minos

Klopstock and Wieland

Man's Dignity

The Messiad

The Mole

Monument of Moor the Robber

The Muses' Revenge

The Parallel

The Peasants

The Plague

Quirl

Reproach - to Laura

The Satyr and My Muse

The Simple Peasant

Spinosa

Thoughts on the 1st October, 1781

Trust in Immortality

The Winter Night

The Wirtemberger

1781-1804

47

341k

GFSX001

The History of the Thirty Years' War in Germany

1793

166

1481k

GFSX002

Wilhelm Tell [Play]

1804

123

561k

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